The Sheik Of Sinai In 1830 (William Edmondstoune Aytoun Poems)
I.'Lift me without the tent, I say,-Me and my ottoman,-I'll see the messenger myself!It is the caravanFrom Africa, thou sayest,And ...
Home Poems (6136 Poems)
At Her Window (Henry Kendall Poems)
To-night a strong south wind in thunder singsAcross the city. Now by salt wet flats,And ridges perished with the breath ...
The Rovers (Henry Lawson Poems)
Some born of homely parents For ages settled down-The steady generations Of village, farm, and town:And some of dusky fathers Who wandered since ...
Leave in 1917 (Lilian M Anderson Poems)
Moonlight and death were on the Narrow Seasmoonlight and death and sleep were on the land:blindfold the lamps of home, ...
By the Cliffs of the Sea (Henry Kendall Poems)
In a far-away glen of the hills, Where the bird of the night is at rest,Shut in from the thunder that ...
Broken Barbiton-Withered Laurel-Wreath And Broken Heart (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
A SCENE FROM BULWER'S ZANONI.IT was the close of day upon the shoresOf beauteous Naples. The low murmuring wavesThat rose ...
The Burial in the Snow (Julia A Moore Poems)
How well do I remember Of a burial in the snow,On a winter's evening Some fifteen years ago;The ground was covered over With ...
Ode–Shell the Old City! Shell! (William Gilmore Simms Poems)
I.Shell the old city I shell!Ye myrmidons of Hell;Ye serve your master well,With hellish arts!Hurl down, with bolt and fire,The ...
Friendship (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
I VIEWED him well, the visible fat fool, And yet I took him in; for I contended, Friends are not sent in ...
Book1 Prologue (Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi Poems)
Hearken to the reed-flute, how it complains,Lamenting its banishment from its home:'Ever since they tore me from my osier bed,My ...
Cromwell (Henry Lawson Poems)
They took dead Cromwell from his grave, And stuck his head on high;The Merry Monarch and his men, They laughed as they ...
The Traveller in Africa (Louisa Stuart Costello Poems)
A Dramatic SketchA Forest. Night.Alone, amidst the interminable forest!-Where shall I seek for aid! my weary limbs,Torn by the briars, ...
The Hoosier Folk-Child (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
The Hoosier Folk-Child--all unsung-- Unlettered all of mind and tongue; Unmastered, unmolested--made Most wholly frank and unafraid: Untaught of any school--unvexed Of law or creed--all ...
The Secret Whisky Cure (Henry Lawson Poems)
'Tis no tale of heroism, 'tis no tale of storm and strife,But of ordinary boozing, and of dull domestic life-Of ...
A Song About Myself (John Keats Poems)
I.There was a naughty boy, A naughty boy was he,He would not stop at home, He could not quiet be- He took In his ...
The Gulf of All Human Possessions (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Come hither, and behold the fruits,Vain man! of all thy vain pursuits.Take wise advice, and look behind,Bring all past actions ...
Romancin’ (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I' b'en a-kindo musin', as the feller says, and I'm About o' the conclusion that they ain't no better time, When you ...
The Christmas Sheaf (Phoebe Cary Poems)
"Now, good-wife, bring your precious hoard,"The Norland farmer cried,"And heap the hearth, and heap the board,For the blessed Christmas-tide."And bid ...
The Ballad of the Rousabout (Henry Lawson Poems)
A Rouseabout of rouseabouts, from any land-or none-I bear a nick-name of the bush, and I'm-a woman's son;I came from ...
The Female Convict’s Death. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
I CHANCED to stray along the barren hillsThat stretch from Botany Bay to Sydney CoveOne cloudy morn. Full many a ...
Wedding Song (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THE tale of the Count our glad song shall recordWho had in this castle his dwelling,Where now ye are feasting ...
My Father, Mother, Brothers, Sisters (John Pierpont Poems)
They are all gone, but one.—A daughter and a sonWere, from my parents, early taken away;And my own childhood's joyWas ...
Honeymooning (John O Brien Poems)
To the rooms where I am dining in the glaring city's dayCome the happy honeymooners from the country far away,Two ...
Liberty (Jared Barhite Poems)
Into the port where Liberty stands Inviting the nations to woo her, Malefactors swarm from foreign lands, Whose tenets would surely undo her. Criminals, ...
St. Thomas’ Day (John Keble Poems)
We were not by when Jesus came, But round us, far and near, We see His trophies, and His name In choral echoes ...
Betti o Lansantffrai (John Jones Poems)
Old King Solomon once said, before all thegreat people, that there was a time for everyactivity in the world. Some ...
The Lady Maud (Marietta Holley Poems)
I sit in the cloud and the darkness Where I lost you, peerless one;Your bright face shines upon fairer lands, Like the ...
Rantoul (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
One day, along the electric wireHis manly word for Freedom sped;We came next morn: that tongue of fireSaid only, "He ...
War Diary (Miklos Radnoti Poems)
1. Monday EveningYou see, now fear often fingers your heart,and at times the world seems only distant news;the old trees ...